Late news device



' NOV. 5,4 l929. I ||I A W WOOD 1,734,067

LATE NEWS DEVI GE Filed Aug. 4. 1923 x @i 2294 WMM/ZW@ f 455 Patented Nov. 5, 1929 UNITED STATES HENRY A. WISE WOOD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., .ASSIGNOR T WOOD NEWSPAPER lVIA-l CHINERY CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATONl OF VIZRGINIA LATE NEWS DEVICE Application filed August 4, 1923.. serial No.y s553274.

This invention relates to a curved stereotype printing plate having a cavity therein in which type, slugs or plates for news or illustrations can be inserted. Although described as a late news device and intended to be used principally for that purpose, it is, of course, capable of use for inserting matter at any time and for any purpose.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a plate with the cavity so arranged that the plate itself will hold the type, slugs or plates for illustrations without the need for any other chase or turtle.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 'F drawings, in which Fig. l is a perspective view of a curved stereotype printing plate constructed in accordance with this invention, showing one late news cavity empty and lanother lled with printing matter;

' Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the plat e on an enlarged scale showing slugs in position in the cavity, some of them broken away to show the construction of the plate;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2 and also showing the position of the plate on the cylinder;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the printing slugs, and Y Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the locking means therefor.

The invention is shown as applied to a curved printing plate provided with integral characters on its convex face and having one or more cavities 21 therein. Each of these cavities is preferably smaller on the printing or convex side of the plate. In this case ledges are shown which constrict the cavity on the printing side of the plate for that purpose. The ledges are shown as being discontinued for a short distance at 24 to allow for the insertion of matter.

A cavity shaped in this way is intended to be used with slugs 25 of type or any other like printing units. These slugs or other printing units are made with printing surfaces 26 in the usual manner and with projecting ends 27. These projecting ends are of such dimensions as to lit under the ledges 22 at',

both ends ,andV permit the printing surfaces to come upl Hush with the printing surface of the plate. The slugs'can be inserted from" the front through the openings 24 andslid along under the ledges. Then a locking ldevice comprising two bars 30 and 3l held apart by springs 32 is .inserted through theopenings 24 and held in position by the ledges 22 including the small detached portion thereof at two opposite corners ofthe opening in the plate.

I have shown the invention" las: applied to ji a-curved plate in which the slugs are adapted tol rest at the concave side of said plate back e against the printing cylinder 33 on which the plate is mounted. In this way the plate and cylinder hold the slugs in positionagainst lateral displacement and there is no need of employing any separate chase or turtle to hold them. The plate itself is the chase. The opposite straight surfaces 29 of the cavity may be made parallel or substantially so, so that the core which is used to form the cavity can be easily removed from the plate. The cavity however need not go completely through the plate but may go but part way,

the inserted slugs or type resting at the back made therein by any person skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention as expressed in the claims. Therefore, I do not wish to be limited to all the details of'construction herein shown and described but what I do claim is 1. As an article of manufacture, a stereotype printing plate having a cavity for late news slugs, said cavity having opposite parallel recesses on the rear side and ledges in front of them, whereby slugs with ends depressed below the printing surface can be inserted behind said ledges, said ledges having a pair of opposite 'openings all the way through them near one end throughwhich 10Q il y type-printing plate having a cavity therethrough for late news slugs, said opening having opposite parallel recesses on the rear side and ledges in front of them, whereby slugs with ends depressed below the printing sur-l face vcan be. inserted behindl said ledges and y held between thek plate and its supporting device on the press, said ledges having a pair of opposite openings all the way through themnearA one end through which'the slugs? and al locking means therefor can be inserted from the front; Y l 3. As an article of manufacture, a' stereotype printing plate having a cavity there-` through for late news slugs, said cavity having opposwprallel-1edgs whereby-.slugs with endsfdepressed below the printingsurface can inserted behind said ledges and held between the plate4 and its supporting dv'iceon the ress, said ledges having*v an opening hru'g f them for receiving a locking'me'ns q f4 AS', en' ertc 0f; iavfctur, Suited- Y typ'elprinting plate having a cavity for late' Inews S111 s,- said cavity having opposite vledges, slugs vwith ends depressed below' the printing surfacevcan be inserted behindA said1edges, said ledges havin i a pair of o ifpo's'ite openingsthrough them troughl Whic p the s'lv s arid aglocking means therefor cani be inserte Yfremthe front'.n

In testi 'tony whereof I' have hereunto affixed-my signature, 1 

